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  Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere. "The waves ran mountain-high and threatened to overwhelm [the ship] at every roll," wrote one passenger on an 1849 voyage rounding the tip of South America. Many years later, scientists poring over satellite data could finally put numbers behind sailors' intuition: The Southern Hemisphere is indeed stormier than the Northern, by about 24%, in fact. But no one knew ... read more |
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Warmer noses are better at fighting colds: studyWashington (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 Chilly weather and common respiratory infections often go hand in hand. ... more  
Archaeologist claims human relative used controlled fire for light, cookingWashington DC (UPI) Dec 6, 2021 South African archaeologists say they have proof that a close relative of humans used fire for both light and cooking meat, despite having a much smaller brain than ours. ... more 
China announces nationwide loosening of Covid restrictionsBeijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 China announced Wednesday a nationwide loosening of its hardline Covid restrictions that had hammered the world's second biggest economy and ignited rare protests against the ruling Communist Party. ... more 
What's changed as China relaxes strict Covid rulesBeijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 China rolled back its tough Covid rules on Wednesday, after the restrictions sparked popular unrest and hammered the world's second-largest economy. ... more |
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Spain govt defends flood response and offers new aid Spain govt defends flood action as it offers new aid Moderately strong quake hits off central Japan Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20 16 dead, seven missing in Indonesia flood: disaster agency Storm Bert bring widespread flooding in Britain Landslide kills nine in DR Congo Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK |
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2022: a year of living dangerouslyParis (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the overturning of abortion laws in the United States, here is a roundup of the biggest events to mark 2022. ... more  
EU agrees ban on imports driving deforestationBrussels (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 The European Union reached an agreement Tuesday to ban the import of products including coffee, cocoa and soy in cases where they are deemed to contribute to deforestation. ... more  
Kenya drought leaves wildlife gasping for breathAmboseli, Kenya (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 As he peers at the carcass of the young elephant, Kenyan park ranger Josphat Wangigi Kagai says such disturbing sights have become all too familiar - a reflection of the vicious drought sweeping across the Horn of Africa. ... more  
Hawaii deploys National Guard in volcano eruption responseLos Angeles (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 Hawaii has activated its National Guard to support the response to the first eruption of the world's biggest volcano in almost 40 years, with lava threatening a key highway. ... more |
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Italy landslide death toll rises to 12Rome (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 Rescuers on Tuesday recovered the body of the last person missing after a landslide on the Italian island of Ischia last month, bringing the final death toll to 12. ... more 
German court rejects challenge to EU Covid fundKarlsruhe, Germany (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 The German Constitutional Court rejected challenges Tuesday to Berlin's participation in the European Union's coronavirus recovery fund, but expressed some reservations about the massive package. ... more 
Colombia landslide kills 34Bogota (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 Heavy rains in northwest Colombia sent a wall of earth crashing onto a winding road, swallowing up a bus and other vehicles and killing 34 people, emergency services said Monday. ... more 
Blinken hopes China strategy works on CovidWashington (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the United States had a stake in China's response to Covid as Beijing eases stringent restrictions following protests. ... more |
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The end is nigh? Climate, nuclear crises spark fears of worstWashington (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 For thousands of years, predictions of apocalypse have borne little fruit. But with dangers rising from nuclear war and climate change, does the planet need to at least begin contemplating the worst? ... more  
China's ruling party lauds late leader Jiang Zemin as Hu reemergesBeijing (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 Sirens wailed across China as the Communist Party eulogised late leader Jiang Zemin Tuesday, hailing him as a patriot who "dedicated his life" to the country. ... more  
In El Salvador, soldiers patrol where gangs once ruledSoyapango, El Salvador (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 Mauricio Gonzalez, an Evangelical pastor in a Salvadoran city overrun with violent street gangs, says life there used to be terrifying. ... more  
US, Brazil plan Biden-Lula meeting in WashingtonBras�lia (AFP) Dec 2, 2022 Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and US officials said Friday he is planning to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House, likely before taking office on January 1. ... more  
Peru slaughters more than 37,000 poultry after bird flu outbreakLima (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 Peruvian authorities have culled at least 37,000 birds on a chicken farm due to bird flu, officials said Thursday. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 5, 2022  From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the overturning of abortion laws in the United States, here is a roundup of the biggest events to mark 2022.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin launches the biggest invasion in Europe since World War II when he sends troops into Ukraine on February 24 to "demilitarise and de-Nazify" the country, causing millions of Ukrainians to fl ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched a multimillion-dollar, multiyear program with BioMADE, Farmed Materials and The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in 2022 to develop a domestic source of natural rubber from a specific species of dandelion.
Natural rubber is a crucial element in the Department of the Air Force's production of aircraft tires. The Materials and Manufacturin ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 
At least 2,500 endangered seals have been found dead along Russia's Caspian Sea coast, the local environment ministry said.
Investigators are still working to explain why the seals washed up on beaches in Dagestan, southern Russia.
Authorities are leaning towards suffocation from gas released from the seafloor as the "main" cause of death, said Svetlana Radionova, the head of the Russia ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 02, 2022 
It's no surprise that when a massive lump of ice drops off the edge of a glacier into the sea, the surface waters of the ocean get pretty churned up. However, in addition to causing tsunamis at the surface of the ocean, recent research has led to the discovery that glacier calving can excite vigorous internal tsunami waves - a process that has been neglected in driving ocean mixing in computer m ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 06, 2022 
Chinese scientists have completed the life-cycle growth experiments of rice and Arabidopsis in the Chinese space station and successfully obtained their seeds, said the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Monday.
With the safe landing of the Shenzhou-14 spaceship's return capsule at the Dongfeng landing site Sunday night, the seeds of rice and Arabidopsis, which have undergone a 120-day l ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Dec 6, 2022 
Hawaii has activated its National Guard to support the response to the first eruption of the world's biggest volcano in almost 40 years, with lava threatening a key highway.
Twenty National Guard members were deployed "to assist Hawaii County with traffic control and other roles in the Mauna Loa eruption," the Pacific island state's emergency management agency announced in a tweet Monday. ... more |
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 Bamako (AFP) Dec 1, 2022 
Mali's communications authority said Thursday it had lifted the suspension of one of the Sahel country's main news channels, taken off the air a month ago over criticism of the junta.
The channel had on October 13 been put on notice over a September 30 editorial by Mohamed Halidou Attaher.
On November 3, the High Authority for Communication (HAC) suspended Joliba TV for two months, accus ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 6, 2021  South African archaeologists say they have proof that a close relative of humans used fire for both light and cooking meat, despite having a much smaller brain than ours.
The claims around Homo naledi haven't been published or peer-reviewed yet, but the discovery made by paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team is drawing a lot of attention to the small Rising Star cave system in Sou ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2022 
Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality and this is "just the beginning", experts say, as international efforts to cut planet-heating emissions founder.
The year did see some important climate progress, with major new legislation particularly in the United States and Europe as well as ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2022 
Two meteorological satellites, along with their ground application systems, have officially started operation, said the China Meteorological Administration on Thursday.
The trial operation of the two satellites, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) and Fengyun-4B (FY-4B), began in June this year. They will provide observation data and application services to global users.
The FY-3E, launched on July 5 ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 25, 2022 
Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. A study published in Science - led by Nicholas Strausfeld, a Regents Professor in the University of Arizona Department of Neuroscience, and Frank Hirth, a reader of evolutionary neuroscience at King's College London - provides the first detailed description of ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Dec 4, 2022 
More than 500 Ukrainian localities remained without power Sunday following weeks of Russian airstrikes on the electric grid, an interior ministry official said.
"The enemy continues to attack the country's essential infrastructure. Currently, 507 localities in eight regions of our country are cut off from electricity supplies," deputy interior minister Yevgueny Yenin told Ukrainian televisio ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 
"Aqueous ZIBs hold great potential as competitive candidates for next-generation energy storage devices," said corresponding author Ying Bai, professor at School of Materials Science and Engineering in Beijing Institute of Technology. "Thanks to their high theoretical capacity, low cost, and high security."
Bai explained that among various anode materials, the direct adoption of Zn anode c ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 5, 2021 
Researchers in Australia have located the preserved remains of the last-known Tasmanian tiger, after they were misplaced for decades.
The remains of the thylacine were kept inside a cupboard in a Tasmanian museum for years, before recently being properly identified.
The last captive animal died in the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, Australia, on its island state of Tasmania in 1936, a ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 6, 2022  Sirens wailed across China as the Communist Party eulogised late leader Jiang Zemin Tuesday, hailing him as a patriot who "dedicated his life" to the country.
China's rulers orchestrated a day of mourning across the country, with security services ensuring there were no large gatherings on the streets following rare protests in recent weeks.
Jiang died in Shanghai last Wednesday at the ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 
Deep in the Finnish woods, the moss and blueberry shrubs hide a deadly threat to the boreal forests that are as important to the planet as the Amazon rainforest.
With chunks of their bark peeling off and needles falling from dying branches, more and more trees are being killed by the spruce bark beetle, which is venturing further and further north with climate change.
The tiny brown inse ... more |
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